Dienstalterslisten der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP, , were official documents that were issued in book form by the Reichsführung-SS (“SS-Personalamt”) between 1934 and 1945. Up until 1942, these lists included the higher officer corps (SS-Obergruppenführer—SS-Standartenführer), the middle officer corps (SS-Oberführer—SS-Sturmbannführer) and the lower officer corps (SS-Hauptsturmführer—SS-Untersturmführer). On the whole, it can be said that these lists of officers included the entire range of the NSDAP's Schutzstaffel (SS) and not only officers of the Allgemeine SS (General SS), but also those of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, the SS-Verfügungstruppe, the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and the Sicherheitsdienst Reichsführer SS included. The SS officer lists were used by the allies in 1946 to convict and punish SS officers at the Nuremberg trials. History 1934—1938 On October 1, 1934, the “SS-Personalamt” (SS Personnel Office) published the first list of SS officers, which officially documented all ranks of SS-Obergruppenführer—SS-Sturmführer. In this list, an attempt was made to document the career of an SS officer. Heinrich Himmler's career within the SS was only given in the abbreviated form: 1926 Gau-SS-Führer Niederbayern, 1927 Stellvertr. RFSS (Deputy RFSS), 6.1.1929 Reichsführer SS. “Oberster Führer der SS” (Supreme leader of the SS) was Adolf Hitler, as the front page inside showed propagandistically. Once a year, SS leaders had to request so-called “Führer-Fragebögen” (leader questionnaires) from the regional SS personnel leader in the SS-Oberabschnitt, which were used to update the known personal data. This list of SS officers should be available to every “SS-Oberabschnitt” (SS Region), “SS-Abschnitt” (SS District), and every “SS-Stammabteilung” (Supplementay Reserve of the SS), as these were generally not authorized to view the “SS-Stammrollen” (SS main roles) and “SS-Stammkarten” (SS main cards). The SS officers' lists from 1934 and 1935 also included the so-called “SS-Ehren- und Rangführer” (honorary and rank leaders of the SS). Honorary leaders of the SS were ranks to which in the eyes of Heinrich Himmler, a suitable person could be appointed and included the ranks SS-Standartenführer-SS-Gruppenführer. They were obliged to wear their SS uniform on special occasions, but were exempt from SS service and had no authority over other SS members. Max Amann, Walter Buch, and Albert Forster were three of these so-called “SS-Ehrenführer“ (honorary leaders of the SS). Rudolf Hess resigned from the SS in autumn 1933, so that the DALs showed by 1938 that Hess was “authorized by the Führer's order”, “to wear the uniform of an SS-Obergruppenführer.” Hess was the 50th member of the